Ok, my vRS went for its first service this afternoon at a shade under 9K miles, the OEM tyres (Conti SC2) are looking pretty worn on the front but excellent on the rear so I thought I would ask them to rotate back to front to even up the tyre wear, so I asked the guy on the desk, and he replied 'Oh no we dont do that we dont have a tyre fitter here' I replied well all you do is take the rear 'wheels' off and put them on the front and front ones on the back', replied back 'Skoda recommend that the tyres with the most tread are used on the front of the vehicle' I reply 'Thats what I am asking you to do to even up my tyre wear' anyway after a few minutes of the guy really not showing any great interest and contradicting himself with every answer he was giving me I gave up!

Anyway, in the past I have never worried about tyre rotation to even out wear, but, I just thought I might just as well ask them to do it so I can replace all four tyres at about the same time in about 9K miles as opposed to having to buy two now and then two later on, besides I quite like the idea of having all four replaced at the same time to keep it all nice etc etc

Ok, enough waffle, what is the general tredn about tyre rotation etc as I have never really thought about it in the past??

Thanks in advance.

I'd do exactly the same as you [want to] do!

The tyres with the most tread should be on the rear.

Mines just touched 8000 miles and I've just rotated them (front to back) but the front don't look particularly worn yet (phew). :-D

At £114 per tyre (eagle F1's) you want to get the most out of them.

I always use these for my car and bike tyres, very good company

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Edited 18 June, 201312 yr by xpower

The tyres with the most tread should be on the rear.

That's only really the case for people who have no interest in their car and only change the tyres when the mot man says they're bald. If you keep on top of it, don't let them get near the legal limit and rotate them every now and again then there's no problem putting the best ones on the front. The danger is when you have nearly bald tyres on the rear.

When I switch between my winter and summer sets the best go on the front so I can change all 4 during their off season.

The tyres with the most tread should be on the rear.

This. On the edge around a corner you want your front to go first, not your rear.

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Best tyres ALWAYS on the back. I cant believe skoda go against the recommendation of all the tyre companies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rvAJSMT5jc

On SWMBO's mini the good tyres always go on the back.

ALthough I'm aware of the logic for "best-on-the-rear" on my vRS however I prefer to rotate them to wear evenly so I replace all 4 at the same time. Takes about 10 mins to swap them around on my drive.

My rears have very littel wear, my fronts have about 3-4mm left on them so all I wanted to do was rotate them to get the most out of them as one of teh other posters said at the price of them you want to get as much out of them as possible! Think I will pop to the garage I use and ask them to do it for me.

I was just annoyed that he was just contradicting himself all the time, as basically they didnt want to do it!

Skoda service are usually excellent and I can never normally fault them, but they drop a point for that!! :-o

I don't bother, never had a problem.

Although I have actually just done it because my sawtoothed rear were doing my brain in. Still drones on the front but not as bad.

If you've got a spare why not just do it yourself, only takes 40min

Although I do put the deepest tread tyres on the front when I swap them about, I had to change one of SWMBO's tyres as she got a nail in it. They were those crappy overrated Pirellis that kwikfit likes to push on people so instead of buying another, I got a pair of Goodyear Eagles and they went on the back, for exactly the safety reasons stated above. Plus the remaining pirellis will wear down quicker.

I'm sticking to best on rear - however I'm not having an issue with wear rate.

My factory supplied SC2's lasted to 30k miles when I decided to replace two of them - they still had meat on them but the bad weather was coming.

So I switched the remaining SC2's to the front and had new SC5's fitted to the rear.

The last remaining original SC2's are now at 35k miles and will easily last to 40k. At which point I'll have my current 2 SC5's moved to the front and 2 more brand new SC5's put on the rear.

I'm getting great mileage on the tyres and only have to buy 2 at a time.

Maybe I'd get even more by switching them around - but then I'd have to go and buy 4 at the same time.

I'm sorry Sir, we don't rotate customer tyres. Not because we can't or don't want to. We just can't stand the pointless arguments about where to stick the better ones. Thank you for your custom.

If only they bought a Kia In the handbook for ours, it shows you how to rotate the tyres. Every 7,500 miles, move the fronts to the rear and cross the rears onto front. Unless they're directional, then just front/rear, obviously.

Though the absolute, guaranteed best way to rotate the tyres is by pressing the right pedal

Guys can u really not say your "wife" instead of the stupid SWMBO's!

Anyway I also rotate as when ur rear tires get a few years old they go hard and start to purish.

Guys can u really not say your "wife" instead of the stupid SWMBO's!

We could but usually 'the wife(s)' prefers it that we acknowledge that we think she's in charge.

That may or may not be correct but after being married for a few years then you'll soon appreciate what I'm saying!

P.S. Auric has yet to learn the basics.......

Not sure why anyone would want to be stung for 4 tyres in one go.

When you replace the fronts, the new tyres should go on the rear, old rears moved to the front. This way you only ever need 2 at a time

A general observation (not Skoda specific):

I have two cars, a front-wheel-drive one and a rear-wheel-drive one.

FWD car is a battered 20-year-old old 200,000 mile shed. Mehanically sound and safe but not worth putting high-performance tyres on. So I buy two new reasonable-quality-but-not-expensive tyres at a time as needed which I put on the back, moving the old part-worn rear ones to the front to replace the old worn-out (< 3mm) front ones. That way I don't waste any part-worn tyres, always have the best tyres on the back and all tyres get rotated so that lightly-used rear ones don't perish through old age.

RWD is a new-ish sports car which behaves best with four completley matching tyres, so I buy four top-quality tyres at a time. Unless you are just a poseur you buy a sports car for its handling so there is no point in compromising that with anytthing less than top-notch (not necessarily the most expensive!) tyres. Since the rears wear slightly more quickly than the fronts, I swap them front-to-rear every 6,000 miles as suggested in the manual. That way I get very even wear and the rears never become significantly more worn than the fronts. I am able to replace all four at once with a completley matching new set and with no wasted part-worn tyres.

Works for me - seems to give the best combination of good, safe handling and value-for money.

The tyres with the most tread should be on the rear.

Depends entirely on what your biggest concern is.

I rotate wheels so they all wear evenly. There is never a point where one end has lots more tread than the other.

Btw that video demonstration is completely staged.

Edited 18 June, 201312 yr by Kiwibacon

Depends entirely on what your biggest concern is.

I rotate wheels so they all wear evenly. There is never a point where one end has lots more tread than the other.

Nothing wrong with that. Ideal in fact. Doesn't cost any more overall. And changing four at a time enables you to have a car with a fully matching set of tyres and balanced handling.

But if you're only going to fit 2 tyres at a time, put 'em on the back not the front.

Depends entirely on what your biggest concern is.

I rotate wheels so they all wear evenly. There is never a point where one end has lots more tread than the other.

Btw that video demonstration is completely staged.

Mine is safety and I would hope the car coming the other way has the same opinion rather than saving a few quid

Mine is safety and I would hope the car coming the other way has the same opinion rather than saving a few quid

There no safety benefit to having a car with lots of tread on one end and little on the other. There is also no monetary saving to be made either way.

Not sure why anyone would want to be stung for 4 tyres in one go.

Why not? Doesn't cost any more.

And enables you to change to a different make / type of tyre without having a possibly ill-matched front/rear combination. Different makes and different models of even (particularly?) good-quality, high-performance tyres can differ in subtle ways. Many cars behave better and more predictably with a fully-matching set of four identical tyres.

There no safety benefit to having a car with lots of tread on one end and little on the other. There is also no monetary saving to be made either way.

Spot on.

... I thought I would ask them to rotate back to front to even up the tyre wear, so I asked the guy on the desk, and he replied 'Oh no we dont do that we dont have a tyre fitter here'

He sounds a complete moron. I wouldn't want to have any work done by a place which had a dimwit like that on the desk - I would be fearful that he would be too thick to manage to tell the workshop what you wanted to have done.

"There you are, sir - we've changed the engine for you"

"No, no - I said I wanted the oil changed"

"Oh well, hey ho, we were close, weren't we? Anyway, £1,500 please ..."

Dur.